FFS "Batbox" Lot Debugger v2.0: NUCLEAR WAR EDITION
C.S.:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2006 February 02, 13:39:59
Do death memories specifically mention what method a sim died of?
IIRC, they don't. I used to grab townies with the mind control mirror as they walked past, spawned the TOL&D and killed them off. Checked the memories of family members who were home at the time and witnessed the death, it only said '[insert name] had died'. The last victim was fugly npc Gordon King. I had wanted to see what colour the ghost of a sim who had starved to death would be, or if they are even visible when they come out around the 3rd day to haunt (in the base game on another pc, I had weird episodes of floating cutleries stabbing away at plates of food and invisible sims my playable ones were talking to in the hot tub, yet I don't see any tombstones/urns on the lot), so I summoned him onto the Broke's lot, killed him off and all Dustin remembered was Gordon King died :-\.
I've had only 2 cowplant deaths, both intentional and only because I wanted to see how it works with the 'milk' and zombie thing. Frankly, it freaks me out. The plant with udders, I mean :P. Never did it again, and kinda glad I didn't because of all the reports surrounding the lack of death memories if sims kick the bucket this way :P.
Dark Trepie:
Just grabbed what I assume is the newest version and noticed an option to "Wipe Mystery Sim Memories". I absolutely love this.
TaWanda:
Dear God, you have such a huge security gap in your system!
Sorry for posting this here. This is Doc Doofus (You know me from other forums, been around a long time.)
I found this thread through Google, and was reading it, and wanted to add a comment, then noticed, just now, that it has me logged in as TaWanda! Holy Moley! I can only assume this is because I came in through this link:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=1ffdc38901d7d654cecdbec60e2f57c6;action=post;topic=72.0;num_replies=282
I can also read TaWanda's PM's (although I won't read them, being a polite person). However they are available to me, which should be upsetting.
JM, you might want to figure out what's going on and fix it. I only post this here as a well-meant warning. Not trying to cause trouble at all. If I can do this, others can as well, and maybe with other accounts.
I'll get my own login to post my comments. (I think I may already have an account).
Doc Doofus:
About Randomize Sim Generator, and getting stuck on one gender...
Somebody mentioned that, way above, and I have experienced the same thing, multiple times now. I don't think it's just bad luck, but seems to be an honest loop in the random number generator.
Since, as I understand it, the FFS Lot Debugger doesn't replace the Sims' random number generator, but, rather, reseeds it, I tend to think the problem is in the game .exe file. I speculate that Maxis probably made their own random number generator, rather than using the C Standard Lib one, and did a hokey job of it. A poorly designed random number generator can go into a perpetual loop, and that's what seems to happen here.
I have had it where I just get boy, boy, boy... ten, twelve, fourteen, twenty times, before I give up on it. It's possible, I suppose, that reseeding the RNG may invite the loop condition.
I have observed, however, that exiting to the neighborhood and using the CAS screen to make a dummy temporary Sim will jog it out of this.
When the sex gets stuck like this, the faces generated for the babies (tested by growing them up) will still change.
.... Other issues...
I have had a problem several times now where a particular Sim becomes unable to exercise any of the gym equipment. Mousing over the gym gives no clickable options. I am not SURE... But I think that the times that I have experienced this, it happened with recent invited move-in Sims. Doing a Force Error on the Sim or the Gym doesn't help. Other Sims can still use the gym, but one particular Sim can't. Delete/Replace doesn't help. A different type of exercise machine doesn't help, either. (The TV, I think, can still be used to exercise.) I have had it happen on a Downtown lot and on University Lots, twice. The only fix that I have found is to move the Sim out and then move them back in from the Sim Bin.
This isn't a problem with the Lot Debugger, but I only mention this as another problem that it might be nice if the Lot Debugger could fix, in the future.
Doc Doofus:
Somebody mentioned above a problem where student Sims get stuck doing College/Research with the bookcase.
I think I know how this happens, but I'm not sure because I didn't hear enough details. If you are doing Research and you invite another Sim to do Research with your Sim, that Sim will come over and study... and study... and study... until you shoo them or something else intervenes, like maybe a mood failure. They don't seem to be able to easily break out of Join Research on their own. That's probably fixable with a hack.
The same thing can occur if you invite a Sim to join you at chess but you bail out before he gets to the board.
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